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Portrait of Catherine Bégon
Also titled Portret van Catherine Bégon
Jean-Etienne Liotard (Genève, 1702–1789)
1746
- Medium
- parchment (animal material)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 62.8 cm x width 49 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Bequeathed by Miss Marie-Anne Liotard, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This portrait of Catherine Bégon is the pendant of the likeness of her husband Joseph Bouër. She wears a Venetian carnival costume, fashionable at masquerades. The frame is original, like that of her husband's portrait, with the sitter’s coat-of-arms carved into it.
